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Enhancing the Role of Surveyors: Bridging the Gap between Demand for and
Supply of Professional Education
Fahria MASUM, Liza GROENENDIJK, Reinfried MANSBERGER and Audrey MARTIN
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May 29 - June 2, 2
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Content of Presentation
● Introduction
● Global Challenges & Technology Changes
● New Role for Surveyors
● Changing Competences
● Impact on Professional Education
● Conclusions
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Introduction
● In previous times: Surveying was mainly about measuring
● Today: Surveying involves management of land and requires a transdisciplinary approach
● Surveyor Land Professional (Enemark and Williamson, 2004)
● Information processing, telecommunication, space exploration and sensor development changed
dramatically the working methods in surveying (Lemmens, 2011)
● Academic Education has to meet the requirements of global challenges and changing technologies
● FIG Commission 2 intents to develop a curricula and to document teaching methods to address the
present and future needs for the surveying profession
© Ferry Ofner
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Global Challenges
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment
https://www.weforum.org
10 Global Challenges
HODAI TOP 100 GLOBAL PRIORITIES
http://www.hodai.org/top-100-crucial-problems.html
http://www.fao.org
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Global Challenges
Extract
Resilient agricultural practices are success factors to reduce hunger
To be achieved by secure and equal access of land and proper financial services
Equitable quality education and LLL opportunities for all
To be achieved by strengthening academic institutions through international education
Women have to get full and effective participation and equal opportunities for
leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
To be achieved by guaranteeing women equal rights concerning economic resources,
land ownership and other forms of property
Sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and trans-border
infrastructure, have to be built to support economic development and human well-
being.
To be achieved by proper (land) information for decision making
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Technology Changes
● GNSS – Global Navigation Satellite Systems
● Laser Scanner (Terrestrial and Airborne)
● Digital Photogrammetry & Image Matching Techniques
● High Resolution Satellite Images (geometric and temporal)
● Geographic Information Systems & Land Information Systems
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New Role for Surveyors
Land Professional
Managing, controlling and developing land
Traditional Surveyor
Collecting, merging, linking, improving, visualizing
and interpreting diverse land information
Stabilizers of public order.
Guardians of rights of property and Providers of a safe system of records in land administration systems.
Producers, Administrators and Distributors of local, national and global spatial data infrastructure.
Managers of land, water and other natural resources.
Enablers, Mediators and Advisors for urban and rural planning and development (incl. conflict resolution)
Hinges in global, national and local early warning systems for disaster prevention and risk management.
Active partners in the development and use of measuring technology
(www.fig.net, 2006 and Magel, 2006)
Surveyors / Land Professionals
are:
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Changing Competences
● From ‘Measurement of Geometry’ to ‘Assessment of Thematic Information’
New knowledge, skills and competences about sensor types and platforms,
processing methods
● From ‘Mapping’ to ‘Geo-Information Services’
New knowledge, skills and competences about GIS, Visualisation and
distribution of geodata, Big Data technologies
● From ‘Land Administration’ to ‘Land Management’
New knowledge, skills and competences about natural processes and
cultivation of land, environmental management, planning technologies, real
property valuation approaches, land policy, civics and ethical fundamentals,
legal issues, negotiation and mediation
● From ‘Local Knowledge’ to ‘International Expertise’
New knowledge about world languages; Willingness for global mobility; trans-
cultural thinking; wide professional expertise
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Impact on Professional Education Internationalisation and Networking
● Increased mobility of students and teaching staff
● Study programs in English language and joint
study programs
● Individual and institutional capacity building in
developing countries
● Joint research activities
● Knowledge exchange (conferences, workshops,
cooperation in national and international
professional federations, e.g. FIG)
● Harmonization of curricula and education /training
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Impact on Professional Education New teaching approaches
● From teaching to learning
● From on-site lectures to off-site lectures
● From self-contained studies to
life-long-learning
www.fig.net
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Impact on Professional Education How to achieve the new teaching approaches
● Use of modern teaching and learning methods and
communication media
● Quality Management (quality of curriculum design,
information quality, implementation quality , quality
of results)
● Provision of CPD (Continuous Personal
Development) and LLL (Life Long Learning
Program)
http://dhbc.ky.gov
Mansberger & Paulus, 2013
http://www.nextag.de
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Conclusions
● Key challenges for academic surveying education programs are:
to keep pace with technological advancement and
to supply skilled labour and multi-faceted professional competencies needed to respond the
global challenges
● Internationalisation requires partnership within surveying profession to enable and
recognize a global educational standard (e.g. ECTS, learning outcomes)
● FIG Commission 2 will produce a FIG Publication (WT: “Surveying Education on the Move.
New Challenges, New Tools, New Competences”)
Current Paper is the “Kick Off”
● YOUR co-operation is welcomed !!
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Reinfried MANSBERGER
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU Vienna)
Institute of Surveying, Remote Sensing and Land Information
Vienna, Austria
E-mail: [email protected]
Thank You for Your Attention
Liza GROENENDIJK
ITC - University of Twente
Enschede, The Netherlands
E-mail: [email protected]
Fahria MASUM
Land Management Consultant
Munich, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
Audrey MARTIN
Dublin Institute of Technology
School of Surveying and Construction Management
Dublin, Ireland
E-mail: [email protected]